WBC World Boxing Cup: Eight Weight Divisions

sounds too good to be true

 

Light Heavyweight.
1.CHAMPION: BERNARD HOPKINS (US)
2.Chad Dawson (US) (#1 Contender)
3. Ismayl Syllakh (US) NABF
4. Dawid Kostecki (Poland) BALTIC
5. Roberto Bolonti (Argentina) LATINO
6. Pawel Glazewski (Poland) BALTIC Silver
7. Eduard Gutknecht (Germany) EBU
8. Isaac Chilemba (Malawi) INTL

Dawson beats Syllakh in the simi-finals and Hopkins in the finals, and sees his Pound for Pound ratings go up.

 

Sounds a bit unrealistic.

 

Middleweight.
1. CHAMPION DIAMOND BELT: SERGIO MARTINEZ (ARGENTINA)
2. CHAMPION: JULIO CESAR CHAVEZ JR. (MEXICO)
3. Marco Antonio Rubio (Mexico)
4. Joachim Alcine INTL*
5. Grzegorz Proksa (Poland) EBU
6. Koji Sato (Japan) OPBF
7. Gilberto Ramirez (Mexico) YOUTh
8. Michael Oliveira (Brazil) SOUTH AMERICA
* WBC Web page still lists David Lemieux (Canada) INTL who lost to Alcine.
Martinez beats Chavez Jr.. In the Finals.

 

well it all comes down to location and star power. guys like Mayweather aren't going to take part in this if all they are going to receive is $40K a fight. But say a guy like Randall Bailey or some of those regional champs from poor countries? $40K a fight is a ****ing gold mine, especially if they get on TV in the process.

What I think their plan would be is to have regional(North America, Africa, Europe, etc.) or Combined Regional(Oriental & Pacific, EMEA, Americas, etc.). Have a stage of say 8 there then have the winners of the regionals face each other.

So the tournament would look like
Americas:
NABF Champion
vs.
Continental Americas Champion

CABOFE Champion
vs.
FECOMBOX Champion

FECARBOX Champion
vs.
WBC Latino Champion

WBC Youth International
vs.
WBC Mundo Hispano

Repeat for the other regions

Americas Regional
Vs
Europe-Africa Regional

Asia Regional
vs
Oceania Regional

It would be like a poor man's NCAA Championship.

 

I guarantee you that almost every decent name opts not to participate. While it might end up making some good fights between guys who otherwise wouldn't get them, and it might end up making a few new champs, I doubt that even half the guys they want to participate will participate.

 

David Rodriguez also holds a WBC Title....Fecombox. Franklin Lawerence as well. Cabofe. Luis Ortiz is the Latino champ.

Stiverne
Banks
Welliver
Rodriguez
Ortiz
Lawerence
Fury
Molina
Wach

8 of those guys would be the tourney. Arreola will eventually drop out of the WBC before this even starts. He will face Wlad straight after Mormeck IMO. Vitali will not participate in this tourney. Chauncy Welliver will likely be the #1 seed as the only guy with 2 WBC regional belts. Dimitrenko will be in with Helenius next and will not participate in this tourney. Another wild card to the tourney may be Odlanier Solis who just got reinstated to WBC #14 at the convention. If he can get a strap before May, he's probably in.

 

Floyd isn't fighting for 100K per fight...this can't include the champions, even the Martinez, Klitschko, etc aren't fighting for 100K.

 

Any word on this?